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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8047	Philosophy has been marginalised by its failure in the Enlightenment to replace religion [MacIntyre]
	Full Idea: The failure, in the Enlightenment, of philosophy to provide what religion could no longer furnish was an important cause of philosophy losing its central cultural role and becoming a marginal, narrowly academic subject.
	From: Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory [1981], Ch. 4)
	A reaction: A strange way of presenting the situation. Philosophy has never aspired to furnish beliefs for the masses. Plato offered them myths. The refutation of religion was difficult and complex. There is no returning from there to a new folk simplicity.